English 3563
Schedule
Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.
| Part One: Arrivals in the New World | ||
| T | September 7 | Introduction |
| Th | September 9 | Christopher Columbus, from "Journal of the First Voyage to America, 1492-1493," from "Narrative of the Third Voyage, 1498-1500" Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, from Relation of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
| T | September 14 | John Smith, from "A Description of New England" John Winthrop, from "A Modell of Christian Charity" |
| Th | September 16 | William Bradford, from "Of Plymouth Plantation" |
| T | September 21 | Mary Rowlandson, from A Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, pp. 464-475 (First through Fifth Removes) |
| Th | September 23 | Rowlandson, pp. 475-492 (Eighth, Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth Removes) Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 6.51. I Am the Living Bread" |
| T | September 28 | Anne Bradstreet, "The Flesh and the Spirit," "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being but a Month, and One Day Old, "Upon the Burning of Our House July 10th, 1666" BRING WORKING DRAFT OF PASSAGE ANALYSIS TO CLASS FOR PEER-EDITING |
| Th | September 30 | MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| Part Two: Enlightenment and Revolution | ||
| T | October 5 | Jonathan Edwards, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" J. Hector St. John de Crèveœur, from Letters from an American Farmer, from Letters I and II |
| Th | October 7 | Crèvecœur, Letters III, V, IX, XII PASSAGE ANALYSIS DUE IN CLASS |
| T | October 12 | Thomas Paine, from "The American Crisis" Thomas Jefferson, from "Notes on the State of Virginia," Queries VI, XI, XIV, XVII, XVIII |
| Th | October 14 | Philip Freneau, "The Power of Fancy," "On Observing a Large Red-streak Apple" Phillis Wheatley, "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c," "On Being Brought from Africa to America," "To the University of Cambridge, in New England" |
| Part Three: The American Renaissance | ||
| T | October 19 | Seattle, "Speech of Chief Seattle" Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" |
| Th | October 21 | Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government," Walden: "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" |
| T | October 26 | Thoreau, Walden: "Higher Laws," "Spring," "Conclusion" |
| Th | October 28 | Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Preface-Chapter VIII |
| T | November 2 | Douglass, Chapter IX-end |
| Th | November 4 | Fanny Fern, "A Law More Nice Than Just," "The Working-Girls of New York" Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chs. 1-6 |
| T | November 9 | Stowe, Chs. 7-12 |
| Th | November 11 | Stowe, Chs. 13-18 |
| T | November 16 | Stowe, Chs. 19-25 |
| Th | November 18 | Stowe, Chs. 26-32 |
| T | November 23 | Stowe, Chs. 33-40 |
| Th | November 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| T | November 30 | Stowe, Chs. 41-45 |
| Th | December 2 | Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birth-Mark" PEER-EDIT ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| T | December 7 | Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Raven," "The Philosophy of Composition" |
| Th | December 9 | Herman Melville, "Benito Cereno," pp. 2695-2716 ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| T | December 14 | Melville, pp. 2717-2738 |
| Th | December 16 | Melville, pp. 2738-2752 |
| Fri | December 17 | Final Exam, 2-3:55pm |
19 September 2010